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sarsenets

sarsenets is the plural of sarsenet.

Meaning of sarsenet

Noun

sarsenet (countable and uncountable, plural sarsenets)

  1. A very fine and soft silk ribbon woven in a plain weave with a fine warp and higher density weft, now chiefly used for linings.
    • No, vvhy art thou then exaſperate, thou idle, / immaterial ſkeine of ſleiue ſilke; thou greene ſacenet flap for a ſore eye, thou toſſell of a prodigalls purſe— […]c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609...

Questions about sarsenets

What is sarsenets the plural of?
Sarsenets is the plural of sarsenet.

Words near sarsenets in the dictionary

  1. sarse
  2. sarsed
  3. Sarsee
  4. sarsen
  5. sarsenet
  6. sarsenets
  7. sarsens
  8. sarses
  9. Sarsfield
  10. Sarsfields
  11. Sarsi

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